Of Rocket Ships and Washing Machines: Data Technology for People

The story of Big Data technology has centered on engines, algorithms, and statistical methods for data analysis. Less has been said -and too little has been done-regarding technology to improve the lives of data analysts. In this talk I’ll highlight recent research from Berkeley and Stanford targeted at improving productivity across the data lifecycle, using technology to address the scarcest resource in Big Data: people.

Joe Hellerstein

UC Berkeley

Joseph M. Hellerstein is the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and cofounder and CSO at Trifacta. Joe’s work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. He is an ACM fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan fellow, and the recipient of three ACM-SIGMOD Test of Time awards for his research. He has been listed by Fortune Magazine among the 50 smartest people in technology, and MIT Technology Review included his work on their TR10 list of the 10 technologies most likely to change our world.